T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: The Mountaintop, Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo, Anna Deavere Smith
21 Nov 2016
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Nontraditional casting 11. 18. 2016 (guest lecture - alaina monts) Casting: relies on stereotypes & assumptions. Typecasting: often requires reading a body. Ethnicity: pre-production process typically by audition. Terms: traditional casting essentialism, color blind casting universalism, color-conscious casting social context. Ppl will read a(cid:272)tor"s (cid:271)ody as the way it is read so(cid:272)ietally. Non-traditional casting in history: greek theatre. Men wearing masks that are women: sarah bernhardt. White ppl put coal on their face & perpetuated negative stereotypes about black ppl: castrati in operas. Early 17th and 18th centuries castrati (young boys sold to church as singers by poor family & castrated before puberty to maintain young & high voices) Cancelled bc jesus was cast as white & playwright wanted him to be a man of color. Helen mirren plays mans role but turns the character female: transparent. Jeffree is a cisgender male (id w/ born gender: the mountaintop. About mlk jr cast understudy as a white man.
